Judith Arlene (Myers) Kryter

Judith Arlene (Myers) Kryter, 74, of the Tellico Village Community, Loudon, Tenn., passed away Oct. 22 at her home after a 7-month battle with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Judith Arlene (Myers) Kryter, 74, of the Tellico Village Community, Loudon, Tenn., passed away Oct. 22 at her home after a 7-month battle with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

She is survived by her husband, Robert, three children in the Knoxville area, and four grandchildren.

Born in 1938 in Lafayette, Ind., to Gerald and Blanche (Ryker) Myers, Judith grew up in Ft. Wayne, Ind., before moving to Speedway, Ind., in 1954, where she met her future husband as a high school classmate. Following graduation, Judy worked briefly at Allison Division of GM and at Indiana Bell Telephone Co., and attended Purdue University for two years before marrying Robert in 1960.

After helping her husband through five long years in graduate school in Troy, N.Y., the couple moved to Oak Ridge in 1965, where Bob was employed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to perform nuclear energy R & D and Judy became a full-time homemaker and mother. They spent 35 years in Oak Ridge, raising their family of two boys (Mark and Kevin) and two girls (Kimberly and Kristi).

Throughout that period Judy was active in the Oak Ridge Playhouse and Junior Playhouse, the adult choir of First United Methodist Church, the Oak Ridge Arts Council, and served as president of the Oak Ridge Woman's Club.

Judy and Bob moved to the retirement community of Tellico Village in 2000, where both leant their singing talents to the choir of the Community Church at Tellico Village. Judy loved to travel, enjoy and judge fine wines, sew and cross-stitch, make crafts, and paint in oil and watercolor. While in Oak Ridge she was also a part-time exercise instructor.

A celebration of Judy’s life will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, at the Community Church at Tellico Village. Burial will follow at Oak Ridge Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the music ministry program of the Community Church at Tellico Village, 130 Chota Center, Loudon, TN 37774, or Amedisys Hospice, 665 New Highway 68, Suite B, Sweetwater, TN 37874, or The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, 111 Stewart Ave., Bethpage, NY 11714, or a favorite charity.